Wiggle Plait Incorporated into an Elizabethan Hair Design - Assessment Practising
Wiggle plait incorporated into Elizabethan hair design:
After creating the wiggle plait my assessment partner and I which we are working together got a lot of inspiration from this technique. I'm still working on my assessment partner this is to prepare me for the timed assessment. This is now the second time I've worked on her hair and I definitely felt more comfortable working with her hair. When told to create a contemporary Elizabethan design, I got straight into working on the hair after we thought of what I was going to create on the hair incorporating a wiggle plait. This time working on the hair it was slightly oilier this time which made the hair a little more slippery however was still good to work with as bobby pins can be placed through my models braids. This time I wanted to experiment with creating one large egg shaped beehive as the time before I created a heart shape beehive which included two rats. This time I used one rats and it was basically a ball shape, it was a pair of tights filled with couch roll.
Once I had located my padding, I started with creating the beehive, as I learnt from before the part that takes up most of the time is creating the beehive, this is because my model has so much hair, and it’s very thick and long. This means when creating the beehive I have to section the hair out and grip up a few braids at a time otherwise the weight of the hair in one go will pull it down and it won’t be secure. I section to front of the hair that I wanted to keep out and the bottom back of the hair I wanted to keep out as well. When placing the rats on her head I took a braid from the front and one from the back and tied and knot and the top and the same with the sides, this made the hair look like a tied parcel. I then gripped the hair to the roots of her braids and the braids to the padding to create security. I then purely started grabbing each bit of hair from each side and started building it up make sure the padding was covered and the hair was secure to the padding and her head. Once all the hair was gripped into place for the beehive which took most of the time up as there is so much of it, I wanted to start on the front of the hair.
This is where I wanted to incorporate the wiggle plait into my design. I sectioned the hair at the start before creating the beehive to make sure I have sets of threes at the front to create the wiggle plait. I basically started plaiting the hair and then when it came to the end of the hair I pulled the two strands up to create the plait. This gave a very thick and textured look as I was plaiting hair that was already plaited which gave an amazing texture and three dimensional look to the hair. I couldn't carry on plaiting the rest of the section as the strands were too thin at the end of the hair and the one stand was too thick so I left it like that. I then pulled the wiggle plait of the head with the end strand and gripped it into the beehive as well as the long strand of hair left over. I left enough strands to create four wiggle plaits on each side. I started form the middle of the head where I created a middle parting (very Elizabethan) and then worked my way down the side plaiting each one and gripping it to the beehive. When I came to the last piece I was playing around with the placement of the plait and was originally think of doing something to cover the hair at the front this is when we pulled the plait over to connect the middle and it looked really good and framed the front of the hair and felt very contemporary Elizabethan. I then completed the same on the other side. For the back of the hair I wanted to leave it down, this lengthen and expands the design so it doesn't all bulked up on the top, I think keeping it partly down still is very Elizabethan as they would often leave the bottom part down, however my models just looks very modern and contemporary as its all braided.
Overall I'm very happy with outcome of this design as it contained a lot of Elizabethan elements but a modern interpretation of the era. I felt the plait gave a unique, textured look to the hair instead of creating the traditional plaits which makes it very contemporary. I definitely feel much more confident with working on my models hair as all I need to do is plan the structure, section the hair, and layer it up. The hardest part is probably the beehive however this time I feel I worked much better than the heart beehive on my last hair design as I felt more confident to do it to time. Overall my time was about an hour and 20 minutes to create the hair style which I would say around and hour of it was structuring the beehive, I want to cut my design down to around an hour and 10/15 minutes, this means just working at a faster pace however still getting precision.
Once I had located my padding, I started with creating the beehive, as I learnt from before the part that takes up most of the time is creating the beehive, this is because my model has so much hair, and it’s very thick and long. This means when creating the beehive I have to section the hair out and grip up a few braids at a time otherwise the weight of the hair in one go will pull it down and it won’t be secure. I section to front of the hair that I wanted to keep out and the bottom back of the hair I wanted to keep out as well. When placing the rats on her head I took a braid from the front and one from the back and tied and knot and the top and the same with the sides, this made the hair look like a tied parcel. I then gripped the hair to the roots of her braids and the braids to the padding to create security. I then purely started grabbing each bit of hair from each side and started building it up make sure the padding was covered and the hair was secure to the padding and her head. Once all the hair was gripped into place for the beehive which took most of the time up as there is so much of it, I wanted to start on the front of the hair.
This is where I wanted to incorporate the wiggle plait into my design. I sectioned the hair at the start before creating the beehive to make sure I have sets of threes at the front to create the wiggle plait. I basically started plaiting the hair and then when it came to the end of the hair I pulled the two strands up to create the plait. This gave a very thick and textured look as I was plaiting hair that was already plaited which gave an amazing texture and three dimensional look to the hair. I couldn't carry on plaiting the rest of the section as the strands were too thin at the end of the hair and the one stand was too thick so I left it like that. I then pulled the wiggle plait of the head with the end strand and gripped it into the beehive as well as the long strand of hair left over. I left enough strands to create four wiggle plaits on each side. I started form the middle of the head where I created a middle parting (very Elizabethan) and then worked my way down the side plaiting each one and gripping it to the beehive. When I came to the last piece I was playing around with the placement of the plait and was originally think of doing something to cover the hair at the front this is when we pulled the plait over to connect the middle and it looked really good and framed the front of the hair and felt very contemporary Elizabethan. I then completed the same on the other side. For the back of the hair I wanted to leave it down, this lengthen and expands the design so it doesn't all bulked up on the top, I think keeping it partly down still is very Elizabethan as they would often leave the bottom part down, however my models just looks very modern and contemporary as its all braided.
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